Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Date of Designation
31/01/2001
Date of Amendment
31/01/2001
Name of Property
Barn at Pen-y-clawdd Farm
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Location
Located some 20m W of Pen-y-clawdd farmhouse.
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
History
Barn possibly earlier C17 contemporary with the c1620 phase of development of the adjacent farmhouse. Held by Fox & Raglan to represent an intermediate stage of barn development in Monmouthshire during the C17 between the early C17 century wooden barns and the brick barns of the early C18.
Exterior
Barn, red brick and timber on stone base with clay pantile roof. Double full-height doors to left adjoining left lean-to with roof continued down over. To right is long brick wall, on rubble plinth, the brickwork rebuilt with blockwork behind and 4 upper square openings. timber framing above with weatherboarding. Red brick end walls. N wall with 3 loops over ground floor door, window and door. S end wall with 5 loops.
Interior
Six-bay double purlin roof with 5 upper cruck trusses with tie-beams and collars. Loft floor at level of external brickwork.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Pen-y-clawdd Farm and as representing an important phase in late C17 barn construction.
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